Drier



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I DRIER Filed July 22', 1935 INVENTOR 48E 0. ii/10:15

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DRIER Abe 0. Samuels, Rochester, Y., assignor to Samson-United Corporation, Rochester, N. Y.

Application July 22, 1935, Serial No. 32,493

4 Claims.

This invention relates to electric hair driers and has for one of its objects to provide a novel form of casing and mounting for such a drier.

A further object of this invention is to provide the drier with a novel form of fan mechanism for creating the air current for the drier.

Another object of this invention is to'so construct the entire mechanism of the drier that its weight is axially balanced in a cylindrical housing so as to facilitate an easy handling thereof,

All these and other objects and attendant advantages will become more readily apparent from the detailed description thereof which follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which- Figure 1 isa side elevation of the'hair drier.

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof. d1 Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the ier.

Figure 4 is a cross section of the casing taken on the line tic-4a: of Figure 3 and an end ele vation of the drying mechanism within the casing.

In the several figures of the drawing like ref- 5 erence numerals indicate like parts.

The hair drier construction forming the subject matter of my present invention is constructed so as to be axially balanced within a tubular casing so that in holding the drier by a. handle the weight thereof will be equally distributed on both sides of the handle at the end thereof with the center of gravity of the apparatus in a plane with the handle and the axis of the casing.

This is accomplished by a mechanism which uses a pair of fans I, l for creating the current of air for the drier. These fans are mounted on the armature shaft 2 with the armature located between them.-- The armature rotates between the poles 3 and 4 located at one end of the rectangular horizontally arranged field structure of fan and then force the air laterally thereof. The

inlet openings 1 in the casing are located so as to be in line with the center of the fans so as to eificiently draw the air into the casing and then force it forwardly past the heating unit 8 to be heated thereby. The heating unit is mounted centrally of the housing and providesa partial partition therein so that the current of air which flows past each side of the unit is heated first and then forced out thru the outlet 9 in the forward end thereof.

In this way the weightof the mechanism of the drier is equally distributed on each side of the longitudinal axis of the housing so that any handle, as for example the handle It, used for handling the drier and suitably attached to the J housing thereof, will have the weight of the drier uniformly supported on each side thereof. This makes for ease in handling and operating the drier so that the operator thereof will not be fatigued in the use of it.

I claim:

1. In a drier the combination of an elongated tubular casing closed at one'end and having an outlet at the other end, an electric motor comprising a substantially U shaped magnet arranged in the closed end of said casing; an armature mounted to rotate between the ends of said ture shaft extending from each end of said armature, a fan mounted on each end of said armature shaft so as to be located on each side of said field magnet, said tubular casing having an inlet in the side thereof substantially in line with the axis of rotation of each of said fans, and a heating unit in front of said motor and mounted axially in said casing.

2. In a drier unit, a substantially tubular casing provided with an outlet aperture in one end thereof, an electric motor within said casing and comprising a substantially U-shaped field magnet and an armature mounted between the legs of said field magnet, said armature being provided with a shaft and extending transversely of said casing, a pair of fans carried on the ends of said shaft respectively and on opposite sides of said armature, said casingbeing provided with intake apertures in register with said fans, said U-shaped magnet extending into the end of said casing opposite said outlet end thereof, and electric heating means positioned in said casing between said fans and said outlet.

3. In a drier unit, a substantially tubular twopiece casing comprising a pair of mutually engageable pieces and means for retaining said pieces in locking engagement to form a joint transverse of said casing, one of said pieces having an end provided with an outlet aperture and the other of said pieces having a closed end, an electric'motor mounted within said casing and extending longitudinally of said casing within field magnet transversely of the casing, an armaelectric heating means positioned in said casing between "said fans and said outlet.

4. The subject matter of claim 3, said drier unit further comprising a handle carried by said casing at the point of engagement of said .pieces thereof, said motor and fans and heating means being so positioned within said casing that the weight of said unit is substantially symmetrically balanced on said handle.

' ABE O. SAMUELS. 

